Native American Treatment and Resistance (Westward Expansion)

Native American Treatment and Resistance (Westward Expansion) — page 7
NATIVE AMERICAN TREATMENT NATIVE AMERICAN TREATMENT AND RESISTANCE AND RESISTANCE AN OLD WORLD GREETS A NEW ONE Beginning with Jamestown in 1607 the English set up colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America At first the local Native Americans helped the English colonists establish settlements raise crops and adjust to living in an environment that was quite different from England’s Powhatan Wahunsenacah leader of an Algonquian-speaking confederacy in Virginia and Massasoit Wasamegin leader of the Wampanoag Indians in New England established generally peaceful trade relations with the English But the spirit of friendship dete riorated as the expanding colonies pressed further into Indian territory routinely breaking their boundary agreements A difference of attitudes over land own ership was a major cause of conflict between Powhatan was the leader of the Powhatan confederacy of American Indians This image is taken from Norman B Wood’s 1906 book The Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs 10